Skate.



'PATENTED AUG. 8, 1905.

E. HUNOLD.

SKATE. APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 24. 1904- WiTrvEssEs. INVENTOR.

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ERNEST HUN OLD, OF PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND.

SKATE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 8, 1905.

Application filed September 24. 1904. Serial No. 225,755.

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ERNEST HUNOLD, a citizen of the United States,.residing at Providence, in the county of Providence and State of Rhode Island, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Skates, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings.

Myinvention relates to fastening means for skates, particularly to that class of skates composed Wholly of metal; and it consists in a novel engaging means for the heel-plate and new application of the same.

Heretofore great difficulty has been experienced in devising some means of uniting the heel-screw of a skate with the heel-plate in sucha manner as to maintain a rigid relation between the parts. Y

Primarily to the purpose of attaining this end my invention consists in the novel structure and arrangement hereinafter described, and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, Wherein Figure 1 is a side elevation of a complete skate equipped with and embodying my invention; Fig. 2, a transverse section of the same on line :0 m of Fig. 1, and Fig. 3 a side elevation of theistud or engaging member in detail.

In the drawings like reference characters indicate like parts throughout.

The skate to which my invention is illustrated as applying may be of any convenient form, embodying, for instance, the runner a, carrying the toe-plate b and heel-plate 0, each of these plates being equipped with the usual strap-passages (Z and 6, respectively.

The heel -plate is provided with a novel form of stud, which will be now described in detail.

The stud comprises an upper portion threaded as a wood-screw f, while its lower portion has a machine-thread upon its surface and is flat at its extremity rather than pointed, like the wood-screw portion f. Intermediate the two threads just described is a collar it, fixedly embracing or integral with the stud. This circular collar i2 is adapted to rest in countersunk portion 2' in the upper face of the heel-plate c, and is thus flush with the surface of the latter, and after the insertion of the stud relieves the lower portion of the stud of lateral strain and also lessens the liability of said portion working loose. To further attain the latter end, a dowel-pin Z is transversely driven through the shank g of the stud, which effectually locks the latter against vertical movement.

It will be observed that the structure above described insures invariable rigidity of the exposed portion of the stud f under all circumstances and that not only is the method of uniting the stud with the heel-plate a novel and eificient means for securing the end, but also the stud itself is of novel and usefulformation.

Having described my invention, what I claim is In a skate, the combination of a runner, a heel-plate fixed directly to the runner and having a vertically-disposed threaded socket in its upper portion and a countersink at the upper end of said socket, and a stud having a lower threaded extremity disposed in the socket of the heel-plate, an upper threaded and pointed extremity, and an intermediate collar seated in the countersink of the plate and arranged flush with the upper side there of, and a transverse pin extending through thedheel-plate and the lower extremity of the stu In testimony whereof I have aifixed my signature in presence of two witnesses.

ERNEST HUNOLD.

Witnesses:

HoRATIo E. BELLOWS, WILLIAM E. BROWN. 

